Acting Sergeant Rebecca Sulman travels across the state with aims to educate potential future police officers about the job.

“We are here to expose our organisation to as many people as possible so they have the chance to understand what the role of a police officer is, how important it is for Tasmania Police to represent our community and have a really broad recruitment base from which we can choose our applicants.”

Acting Sergeant Sulman said many people are unaware of the broad range of things police do to assist the community.

“It is really hard for members of the public to know what police do, quite often people have gone through their teenage years without much interaction with police so then they might think of television shows as how they see policing and obviously it is nothing like that,” she said.

Throughout the years Tasmania Police have recruited a variety of people Acting Sergeant Sulman said, to better represent the community.

“The number of police women in Tasmania Police has certainly increased in the last ten years and also the diversity of all our members has increased as well,” she said.

“We try to represent the community we are serving.”

Due to the diversity of police officers in recent years, Acting Sergeant Sulman said past education and experiences are taken into consideration when recruiting.

“We consider the base requirement to be someone who has finished grade 10, generally for our older applicants, who have gone on to complete an apprenticeship or something similar,” she said.

“With the younger applicants we would be hoping for up to a year 12 education at least, then we are looking for fantastic communication skills, conflict resolution skills and just general life skills which means they can be empathetic towards the issues that people in our society face.”

Tasmania Police held a police recruitment information session at Devonport on Tuesday night.